FURTHER to my metro/subway/tube post the day before yesterday ~ about tube stations in cities near and far of which I know nothing about where they actually ARE ~ ie what's actually there above ground, here's the pictures:
TOKYO: HIGASHI-NIHONBASHI
Nihombashi/Nihonbashi (you can spell it either way) "Japan Bridge East" is Tokyo's major business district, full of high class hotels...
BERLIN: UNTER DEN LINDEN
This is what's actually under the legendary lime trees ~ rather a nice park with the Brandenburger Schloss at the end...
PARIS: LA MOTTE PICQUET GRENELLE
This interchange station, about 2 stops from the hostel where I once stayed in Commerce, in the 15th arrondisement, on line number 8, direction Balard, marks the intersection of Aveunue de la Motte Picquet and Avenue de la Grenelle. Pictured above: Avenue de la Motte Picquet (all very left bank) ~ and very swish!
LONDON: MUDCHUTE
Although, most disappointingly, there is no mud and no chutes to be seen at this DLR station, Mudchute is, amazingly, well known for its city farm where sheep graze against a backdrop of glittering towers..!
World, you have let me down
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If you'd walked past my large pink rose bush just now you'd have heard
squeaking coming from behind it. It was me trying to pick out the baddies.
I was h...
1 day ago
2 comments:
Nice, I like the sheep but not the towers.
but isn't that an odd photo!... at first I queried whether it was actually real... but apparently so!!
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